Fuzzy thinking and sharp type
FOR MANY YEARS now I've been aware that people designing for the web are interested in type being "sharper" on the screen. Customers have contacted our shop saying that logos, buttons, and whole fonts needed "sharpening". I think, they think, there is some magic hole that one can put a typographic image into, turn a handle, blow off the dust, and the fuzziness will be gone.
No timetable
for the readability wars
AFTER A FLURRY of discussion about the Microsoft proposal on EOT font embedding, I have some further thoughts on the subject of screen fonts.
Screen fonts,
from Adobe’s point of view
THE COMMENTS IN recent entries on this blog about text in Flash and PDF highlight that Adobe is doing a poor job of making our text features easily discoverable for designers, developers and end-users. I would like to address some of your misconceptions about Flash and PDF text, and encourage you to provide feedback on how we can continue to improve text within Adobe technologies. We’d love to talk to you.
Getting in bed with type
THERE IS FRESH word from Redmond that after all these years we may be able to get more typefaces onto web sites.